The team captained by Belgium’s Manon De Roey take a two-shot lead heading into the final day of the Ladies European Tour’s Aramco Team Series — Jeddah.
De Roey and teammates Carmen Alonso and Elina Nummenpaa hit a 20-under-par in King Abdullah Economic City on Day 2.
However, it was their 61-year-old amateur teammate Nic Davies carding a pair of net-eagles that proved the difference in propelling the four-ball to 37-under and a two-stroke lead with one round left to play.
At Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, Davies — playing with a handicap — lit up his team’s closing hole with an unlikely birdie, which a net eagle.
Team De Roey now sit at the top — if they hold on, Alonso and Nummenpaa share $150,000 and each earn their first Ladies European Tour victory.
De Roey said: “I’m really happy with my team. They fought really hard today. We didn’t do so well in the first nine, but we came back strong and I’m very proud of them and how we played. We love playing on this course, it’s very scoreable out there. We’ll fight tomorrow as we have a great opportunity.”
Team Kyriacou — captained by Australia’s Steph Kyriacou, with Lina Boqvist, Laura Beverage and amateur Andy Feller — shot the lowest round of any of the Team Series events to date — 22-under — a score that took them to 35-under for the tournament and into second spot on the leaderboard.
In the individual format, Germany’s Olivia Cowan leads by one, ahead of Argentina’s Magdalena Simmermacher, with chasing English pair Bronte Law and Georgia Hall another stroke behind.
“I’m really happy with how I’m playing at the moment,” said Cowan, who holed-out for eagle from the fairway of Royal Greens’ par four seventh. “It’s quite steady and I’m giving myself a lot of chances to hole putts, which I think is important out here. I think the relaxed team format of this event helps bring out the best in me. We as a team get on really well and are all quite chatty out there, which I like.”
